All This Victory
When Israel invades Lebanon, five people take refuge from the violence in a house. Israeli soldiers take up positions on the floor above.
94'
Lebanon
IFFR 2020
Fortunately, Italian cinema still brings us beautiful, contemporary Neorealist films. This lively fiction feature debut from documentary director Marcello Sannino convinces and moves with a sketch of everyday life and survival in Portici, the old, multicultural part of Naples where Sannino himself grew up. With a superb eye for local details and a great cast, he tells a nuanced, unsentimental, empathetic tale.
His protagonist is 30-year-old Carmela (the title of the film refers to a line from a song with the same title: 'You rose, rock, star'), who scrapes together a living doing a range of odd jobs. Her situation becomes more complicated when a deal to provide visas to illegal migrants through a lawyer goes badly wrong, leading to her being evicted from her home along with her mother and her eleven-year-old daughter Maria.
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
A harvest of outstanding features – the future classics of arthouse cinema. Including VR works.
Read more about this programmeWhen Israel invades Lebanon, five people take refuge from the violence in a house. Israeli soldiers take up positions on the floor above.
94'
Lebanon
IFFR 2020
Modern Greek tragedy: sixteen-year-old Antigone, Algerian immigrant to Canada, primarily wages the struggle against authorities using social media.
109'
Canada
IFFR 2020
The rise and fall of an opportunistic money changer who has to get his hands dirty to finance his luxurious lifestyle.
97'
Uruguay
IFFR 2020